X-Files History
Season 1
Ep 4. The Piltdown Man: A Skull for Darwin
- July 18, 2018
- 52 min
In 1912, Geological Society of London presented a sensation to the world: The Missing Link, final proof of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Hobby archaeologist Charles Dawson claimed to have found the link between man and ape in a gravel pit in southern England, near Piltdown. Profiler Michael Baurmann and historian Natalie Akbari shed light on the greatest scam in the history of science.